About Me

My name is Ahmed Farooqi and I am a senior in Computer Engineering at the Univeristy of Illinois - Urbana Champaign.

Contact Details

Ahmed Farooqi
[email protected]

Education

Experience

Boeing

Network Design Intern June 2019 - August 2019

  • • Wrote web forms to create F5 virtual application configurations for automation in Django web framework
  • • Sent templates to git CI/CD pipeline to configure IT devices via Ansible and decrease client request turnaround by 50%
  • • Evaluated Nginx in Docker containers to provide enterprise balancing solutions on internal-cloud hosted applications
  • • Created toolkit for F5 servicing via API in Python reducing change request turnaround and GUI overhead

Trustwave

Software Engineer Intern January 2019 - May 2019

  • • Collaborated in team of four to create proof of concept security processors for financial endpoints
  • • Developed file hashing configuration for Apache MiNiFi using OpenSSL to send data to NiFi backend
  • • Created client-server connections with WebSockets, HTTP and Boost in C++ to transfer data across network
  • • Enabled cross compilation of Unix software on Windows in C++ through CMake and Visual Studio with dependency matching

Univeristy of Illinois College of Engineering

L2 IT Consultant August 2017 - November 2018

  • • Provided software, hardware, and networking support for 13,000 users in College of Engineering
  • • Supervised Level 1 students and monitored IT servers backends for faults

Keypath Education

IT Intern June 2018 - August 2018

  • • Wrote VBA script to calculate server usage statistics and advise equipment purchases
  • • Debugged company build of Microsoft Dynamics CRM and found .NET software issues within client

Software & Tools

C, C++, JavaScript, x86, Python, Java, VBA, HTML
Git, Linux, CMake, Visual Studio, MySQL, MongoDB, CUDA, Tableau, Excel, Ansible, Docker